Arlene Corwin writes

Examining ‘My’

My, means belonging to…

Does anything belong to you?

I don’t  think so.

My face, body, cat or house.

Worse,

My child, my wife and coin possessed?

Preposterous and pointless.

Mine to own?

Fallacious and  illusion;

All’s a loan.

Each object, person, situation

Not the tiniest bit mine.

It is better that you say: 

“I go, you go, he goes, she goes”.

Goodness knows, each object goes:

Nothing’s mine and nothing’s yours;

Each thing seen, touched, held; a guise..

The range of verbs you choose to use

Should be reviewed to understand reality.

Everyone and everything but temporary.

Try to take a day or two

Getting used to finding out what, how and who 

Relates to you.

Rotation, alternation, staying in our lives a day

But never staying always.

 

We use ‘my’ without a thought. My goodness! Oh my! We use it affectionately, sympathetically; my dear boy; my poor baby!  Also belonging to or associated with the speaker: my name is Arlene; my friend. And yet, and yet…my is possessive.